Montezuma, Kansas
Upcoming Events in Montezuma Kansas
January
| 18 - 2 |
40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World Photography of Howard G. Buffett
- January 21, 2021 to March 6, 2021 In this powerful exhibit featuring the photography of Howard G. Buffett, 40 photographs document the world hunger crisis as part of a global awareness campaign. Traveling to more than 137 countries, Buffett turned his camera lens on the powerful forces that fuel hunger and poverty. A philanthropist and farmer, Buffett believes that each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our life goals, just as farmers have about 40 growing seasons to improve their harvests. His photography is a call to action to find lasting solutions to the world hunger crisis. The compelling photography in the exhibit illustrates the causes and effects of hunger on five continents and reflects Howard G. Buffett’s belief that hunger is intertwined with poverty, fear, war and conflict, and the lack of opportunity for women. The exhibit also includes an original Newseum film featuring Buffett and his work, and a tactile display that reveals the leading causes of death worldwide. Visitors can use a touch-screen kiosk highlighting five organizations working on solutions to world hunger and conflict to learn how they can be a part of Buffett's 40 Chances campaign. If you had the resources to accomplish something great in the world, what would you do? Legendary investor Warren Buffett posed this challenge to his son in 2006, when he announced he was leaving the bulk of his fortune to philanthropy. Howard G. Buffett set out to help the most vulnerable people on earth - nearly a billion individuals who lack basic food security. And Howard has given himself a deadline: 40 years to put more than $3 billion to work on this challenge. Each of us has about 40 chances to accomplish our goals in life. This is a lesson Howard learned through his passion for farming. All farmers can expect to have about 40 growing seasons, giving them just 40 chances to improve on every harvest. This applies to all of us, however, because we all have about 40 productive years to do the best job we can, whatever our passions or goals may be. 40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World is a new book that captures Howard's journey. Beginning with his love for farming, we join him around the world as he seeks out new approaches to ease the suffering of so many. It is told in a unique format: 40 stories that will provide readers a compelling look at Howard's lessons learned, ranging from his own backyard to some of the most difficult and dangerous places on Earth. This book presents a way of thinking that speaks to every person wanting to make a difference. It's a mindset, providing reasons to hope and actions to take. It offers new approaches that are desperately needed. 40 Chances gives us all inspiration to transform each of our limited chances into opportunities to change the world. 40 CHANCES: Finding Hope in a Hungry World" was developed by the Newseum in collaboration with Howard G. Buffett Foundation. The Newseum is an affiliate of the Freedom Forum, whose mission is to foster First Amendment freedoms for all. freedomforum.org The Howard G. Buffett Foundation is the exclusive sponsor of the “40 Chances: Finding Hope in a Hungry World" exhibit. Address: 111 N Aztec Street , Montezuma, Kansas |
March
| 20 - 27 |
Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War
- March 24, 2021 to May 1, 2021 Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War is a traveling exhibit that remembers the witness of peace-minded people against the First World War 1914-1918. This witness included men and women, religious believers and secular humanitarians, political protesters and sectarian separatists. They resisted U.S. involvement in the war, the enactment of military conscription, the war bond drives, and the denial of freedom of speech under the Espionage and Sedition Acts. For this resistance many suffered community humiliation, federal imprisonment, and mob violence at the hands of a war-crusading American public. This exhibit lifts up the prophetic insights and the personal courage of World War I peace protesters, and suggests parallels to the culture of war and violence in our world today. The exhibit is organized in ten themes that encourage exploration and reflection. The theme modules surround a recreation of an Alcatraz Prison cell, the site where Hutterite conscientious objectors were punished for refusing military participation. Text and quotes provide interpretation and raise provocative questions for viewers while large-scale graphics and photomurals immerse visitors in the historical experience of witnessing for peace during “total war.” A collaborative team of historians and museum professionals developed Voices of Conscience at Kauffman Museum. The exhibit is based on Kauffman Museum’s 30 years of experience in designing and building award-winning projects with a specific focus on innovative approaches to traveling exhibits. Voices of Conscience: Peace Witness in the Great War is a traveling exhibit developed by Kauffman Museum, which remembers the narratives of peoples of faith who opposed the war. The exhibit examines key questions such as: • Who speaks for peace in times of war? • What am I willing to fight for? • What am I willing to die for? • Is paying for war participating in war? • How would I respond to violence? • Who are the voices of conscience today? Stories of the death of the Hutterite Martyrs of Alcatraz and the tarring and feathering of Mennonite farmers in Kansas provide examples of stalwart faith in the face of terror perpetrated by war advocates. For more information visit VoicesOfConscienceExhibit.org Address: 111 N. Aztec (main) Street , Montezuma, Kansas |
May
| 7 - 8 |
Western Kansas Art "Hang-In" 2021
- May 11, 2021 to June 12, 2021 This exhibit is designed to give the many talented artists in Western Kansas a showcase to exhibit their work. Amateur and professional participants will display beautiful two - and three-dimensional art including paintings, drawings, wood carving, metal arts, mixed media, sculpture, photography, ceramics, textiles, and more! This is not a juried (judged) art exhibit, but just a fun way to show off western Kansas art and artists. Art will be displayed from artists from many western Kansas communities. Participants are encouraged to bring and hang or display art they have created over the past 5 years. All art pieces will be accepted on a first hang and display basis. Please contact Museum Staff to get your name on the mailing list if you would like to participate in this exciting exhibit! Address: 111 N Aztec , Montezuma, Kansas |
June
| 18 - 10 |
Dorothea Lange's America: Photographs of the Great Depression
- June 22, 2021 to August 14, 2021 "Dorothea Lange's America: Photographs of the Great Depression" presents a focused retrospective of original lifetime prints by the legendary photographer, Dorothea Lange. Highlighting this show are oversized exhibition prints of her famous portraits, including White Angel Breadline, Migratory Farm Worker, and, most famously, Migrant Mother - an emblematic picture that came to personify pride and resilience in the face of abject poverty in 1930s America. This exhibit will focus on education, artistry, cultural awareness and history. Lange herself had known adversity early in life. At age 7 she was stricken with polio with left her with a lifetime limp. At age 12 her father disappeared from the scene, leaving an impoverished household behind. She talked her way into photo courses with a range of teachers and in 1918, when she moved to San Francisco, she befriended photographers such as Ansel Adams. With the crash of 1929 she found her true calling, as a chronicler of the many faces of America, old and young, urban and rural, native-born and immigrant, as they dealt with unprecedented hardship sometimes with resilience, often with despondence. Her immortal portraits seared these faces of the Depression Era into America’s consciousness. We will be supplementing this exhibit by inviting western Kansas residents to temporarily loan Depression Era photographs, household items, family heirlooms, possibly even farming implements. These artifacts and the exhibit images will be a reminder of how much the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl are Kansas stories. If you or someone you know is interested in loaning items for this exhibit period, please fill in the back of this card and send it to the Stauth Museum so we can put you onto the mailing list so we can contact you closer to the exhibit opening. The Museum would like to enhance this traveling exhibit with photographs and artifacts that depict "life in southwest Kansas" during the Great Depression. Family or farm photographs, household items, family heirlooms, possibly even farming implements, etc. used for everyday life during this time period are wanted. All photographs will be photocopied and enlarged to ensure the originals are not damaged during the exhibit period. If you are interested in loaning a photograph or an item, please fill out this form and leave it with Museum staff or mail it back to the address at the bottom of the page. We will contact you closer to the exhibition dates to work out specific details. Address: 111 N Aztec Street , Montezuma, Kansas |